Book
L'Ancien Royaume du Dahomey
Émile LaRose, libraire-éditeur • Paris • Published In 1911 • Pages:
By: Le Herissé, A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Written by a colonial administrator early in the 20th century, this monograph covers a variety of topics including a history of the Dahomey kings and conquests from the first king (1625 ) to the French conquest (1898), administrative and justice systems, army, state revenue, religion, ancestral cult, family, marriage, childhood, property, legends, and fine art. Appendices include Dahomey reckoning of time and seasons, building and palace architectural plans, fetish objects, list of festishes of the tribes which made up the Dahomey Kingdom. The book is illustrated with photos and palace bas-reliefs depicting martial triumphs and royal insignia.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Verbal arts
- Visual arts
- Status, role, and prestige
- Slavery
- Tribe and nation
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Sanctions
- Judicial authority
- Trial procedure
- Warfare
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cult of the dead
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Magic
- Priesthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fon
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Colonial Administrator
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1600-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Benin (Dahomey)
- NotesAdditional notes
- par A. Le Herissé
- photocopy
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fon (African people)